De Blasio opposes bill to boost police disability pensions

[hrmjustin]

Sally Goldenberg

Mayor Bill de Blasio, generally a champion of unions, opposes a state Assembly bill that would boost disability pensions for New York City police officers because he believes it would put too big a dent in the city budget, Capital has learned.

In response to an inquiry, an administration official confirmed the mayor's opposition to the legislation, which would raise benefits for one group of officers hired after July 2009 if they are injured on the job to conform with the disability pensions for those hired before July 2009.

The City Hall official, who would only speak on background, stressed that the mayor supports the NYPD but views the bill, as written, as cost-prohibitive.

The city's actuary has estimated the measure would cost $35 million in Fiscal Year 2015—a figure the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association says is too high. The P.B.A. insists the estimate assumes more disability retirements than actually would occur based on past figures.

http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/city-hall/2014/06/8546917/de-blasio-opposes-bill-boost-police-disability-pensions?top-featured-1

[dhol82]

1. considering the police are so anti-union for everybody else

then, good.